Arthur Miller Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Eras, Exhausted

  "The Year it Came Apart". New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 30, December 30, 1974 - January 6, 1975.

• Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Religious, Cities

• I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Sleep, Doors

• Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

  Arthur Miller

  Beautiful, Dream, Fashion

• Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Couple, Men

  Death of a Salesman "Requiem" (1949)

• In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Giving, Way

  Interview With William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March-April 2001.

• The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.421, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Writing, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.421, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Doors, Blood

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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